Accountant in Nottingham Reliable Tax Planning & Bookkeeping
A lot of people don't actually know if their accountant is any good until something goes wrong. The returns get filed, the fees get paid and everything seems fine, right up until an expense gets missed or an IR35 review lands with no warning. By then it's too late to ask for better advice.
Henleaze Tax Consultancy works with contractors, landlords, sole traders and small businesses across Nottingham. We're based in Bristol and in practice that's rarely mattered to anyone we work with. Everything runs through cloud accounting, phone calls and email, which covers pretty much everything an in person meeting would, minus the travel.
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What Makes Nottingham Different From Most Cities We Work With
Nottingham has a genuinely mixed economy and that shapes the kind of clients we work with here. The city's Creative Quarter has become a real hub for digital agencies, gaming studios and design firms. There's a long manufacturing and engineering heritage that still supports a solid contractor base. Professional services, healthcare and life sciences all have a strong presence too, alongside two major universities that keep the rental market unusually active.
That mix means the questions we get asked vary a lot. A contractor working for a creative studio near the Lace Market has different priorities to someone landing engineering contracts through Sherwood Business Park and a landlord letting to students near the University of Nottingham has different concerns again to one with a family let out toward West Bridgford. We treat those as genuinely different conversations.
Lace Market & Creative Quarter
Digital agencies, gaming studios & design firms with specific R&D credit opportunities and IR35 clarity needs.
Sherwood Business Park & Engineering
Manufacturing, life sciences & engineering contractors requiring tax-efficient limited company setups.
Univ. of Nottingham & West Bridgford
Active HMO student lets & residential portfolio landlords requiring careful expense & CGT planning.
How We Help Nottingham Clients
Comprehensive fixed-fee services designed specifically around your sector and business needs.
Contractor Accounting
If you're contracting into Nottingham's tech, creative or engineering sectors, get your limited company set up properly through our contractor accounting service, which covers your IR35 position, bookkeeping, VAT, payroll and year end filing in one place.
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Small Business Accounting
For small business owners across the city, our small business accounting service keeps your books current, manages VAT and payroll, and prepares accounts that actually reflect what's happening day to day, rather than a rough reconstruction pulled together at year end.
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Landlord Accounting
Given how many landlords in Nottingham are managing HMOs or purpose built student accommodation, our landlord accounting service is built around exactly that. It covers rental income reporting, allowable expenses and Capital Gains Tax planning, whether you hold one property or several.
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Payroll and HR Support
Payroll mistakes tend to get noticed fast by the people they affect. Our payroll and HR support handles PAYE, pension auto enrolment and HMRC submissions accurately and on time, every cycle.
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Tax Planning
Most overpaid tax comes down to timing rather than mistakes. Our tax planning service works with clients throughout the year, so decisions get made early enough to actually matter, not scrambled together the following January.
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Outsourced Accounting
If you're not quite ready to bring finance in house, our outsourced accounting service effectively becomes your finance function, covering bookkeeping, reporting, payroll and cash flow monitoring without the cost of a salaried hire.
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VAT and Bookkeeping
Clean records make everything else easier. Our VAT and bookkeeping service keeps this side of things tidy, from VAT filing to Making Tax Digital compliance.
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Company Secretarial Services
Companies House deadlines are easy to lose track of precisely because they don't come around often. Our company secretarial service tracks confirmation statements, filings and any changes to directors or shareholders.
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R&D Tax Credit Claims
Nottingham's manufacturing, engineering and life sciences base means genuine research and development activity is more common than a lot of business owners realise. Our R&D tax credit service assesses whether your work qualifies and builds the claim properly.
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Personal Tax and Self Assessment
Dividends, rental income and capital gains rarely sit in isolation from each other. Our personal tax and self assessment service handles the filing and explains how everything connects, rather than handing you a number with no context.
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Transparent Pricing Without Hidden Surprises
Every service above runs on a fixed fee. If you want a rough idea of what you might owe before speaking to us, try our tax calculator, or check typical costs on our pricing page.
The People Who Tend to Reach Out
Nottingham's client base is more varied than most cities we work with, largely down to how mixed the local economy is. A few patterns come up often enough to be worth mentioning.
Student Let & HMO Landlords
Landlords with student lets or HMOs, who'd rather understand the reporting rules properly upfront than find out they got something wrong after the fact.
Creative & Digital Contractors
Contractors in Nottingham's creative and digital sector, who wanted an accountant that actually understood how their industry works, not just generic tax advice applied to any freelancer.
Growing Small Businesses
Small business owners who'd outgrown spreadsheets, and reached the point where guessing at the numbers wasn't good enough anymore.
Independent Sole Traders
Sole traders juggling deadlines alone, looking for someone to take that mental load off rather than reminding themselves every quarter.
Engineering & Manufacturing Contractors
Engineering and manufacturing contractors, drawn to the city by projects around Sherwood Business Park and the wider East Midlands industrial base.
Sound Like Your Situation?
Get in touch and we can talk through where you currently stand. No sales pressure, just practical advice tailored to Nottingham.
Why Nottingham's Rental Market Takes a Bit More Care
Nottingham has one of the more active and consistent student rental markets in the country, with gross yields on student accommodation commonly sitting between five and eight percent.
That's a real advantage if you're a landlord, but it also means HMO conversions, licensing rules and shifting expense treatment come up more often here than in a typical residential letting market. Getting the reporting right from the start avoids a much bigger correction later on.
Questions We Get Asked by Nottingham Clients
Straightforward answers to the most common queries from local business owners, contractors, and landlords.
Have a Conversation Before You Decide Anything
You don't need to have your accounts in order, your questions perfectly framed, or even a firm decision to switch. A short call is usually enough to work out whether we're the right fit for what you actually need in Nottingham, and it costs nothing to find out either way.